Quotes from Cornelia Funke

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

Where did the love come from? What was it made of?

What a plague love is!

I love to read aloud.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.